[Tutor] Searching string value in db

[Magnus Lycka]

At 14:32 2002-11-27 -0500, Doug.Shawhan@gecits.ge.com wrote:
>I have a database in the following format:
>
>'key' : 'FOO, data, data' <--Regular old string with commas...
>
>however:
>
> >>> for each in db.keys():
>         if string.find(db[each], 'FOO') != -1:
>                 print each, db[each]
>
>returns empty.

 >>> import string
 >>> db = {'key' : 'FOO, data, data'}
 >>> for each in db.keys():
...     if string.find(db[each], 'FOO') != -1:
...             print each, db[each]
...
key FOO, data, data

What kind of an object is db? Are you sure it says 'FOO' with
no rubbish in it? Printing the repr() of the data would reveal
rubbish.


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